<br/><br/>The current number of engineering students is not adequate for meeting the needs of the projected workforce. The ChANgE Chem project is focused on increasing the retention of engineering students in their introductory chemistry courses through the development and implementation of recitation modules that situate chemistry concepts in real-world problems that emulate and make explicit an engineer’s ways of thinking, knowing and working. Although many interdisciplinary teams are not successful, this collaboration was successful in both working together and achieving its common goals. The interdisciplinary group consisting of faculty members, instructors and graduate students from education, engineering and chemistry disciplines agreed that communication was a cornerstone for their success. We interviewed the five faculty members and four graduate students to determine how their collegial interactions, trust, transparency and communication skills factored in to their success.

Team members’ perceptions of how communication relates to the success of an interdisciplinary grant collaboration: The ChANgE Chem project

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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